I Think We're Boring.

I haven't had as much to say lately, even though there seems to be a lot going on. The big reason is that I have been trying to turn off my phone as much as possible so that I can concentrate on the things I'm doing without distraction. I have developed a bad habit of distracting myself with my phone through most activities. It seems to dull the pain of hard tasks, spice up the mundane tasks, entertain during the mindless tasks, and help me feel connected with the outside world while I'm at home with four young kids.

But.

Recently, I've become honest with myself that while my phone is extremely helpful, it's also detracts from what I'm trying to accomplish. So I'm decided to have certain hours when my phone is completely shut off. School is one of those times, and we do a lot of school. Which means I never take pictures of what we are doing. 

The lack of photographic evidence of our activities is a bummer, but my mind is calmer and I enjoy the learning process more. Instead of checking my phone, I try to look at my kids and figure out who they are. It's amazing how easy it is to live with people and not really understand them.

This seems to be a serious post. Barf. I do not enjoy being serious. 

Things I did manage to document with pictures:

1. Decorating the house for Halloween.

You may think the scary decorations are the spiders and webs but you would be wrong. Do you see that our second set of shutters is still not up? The imbalance of it all is frightening.

2.  The garage continues to become more beautiful. I have always wanted one of these storage things mounted to the ceiling, and Dan makes all of my garage dreams come true.

We moved a bunch of things that had been in our basement into the storage container, and seeing the basement be emptied of boxes was a wild rush like my mama heart has never known.

3. We have been putting pictures up. Deciding where to hang a picture is a paralyzing decision-making process for me, and Dan has been patient. Until he wasn't anymore. So we are getting it done. We have been trying to use Command strips instead of nails because I tend to change my mind, but when a frame crashed to the ground in the middle of the night last night, we realized I might actually just have to make up my mind and stick with it. Quelle horreur. 

4. Church!

We watched General Conference last week and attended Sacrament Meeting this week.

General Conference was great, but I'm excited to listen to it again while I run in the mornings because hopefully my adorable posterity will not be running alongside me and yelling that they need water in the middle of it. Because that tended to make it harder to hear everything the first go around.

I had a similar issue at church today. Church is right at Beck's morning nap time, and he just screams through everything. I heard we had a great speaker today but I missed his whole talk because I was trying to soothe Beck. And that great speaker was Dan, and apparently he shared some funny stories about me and he'll never tell me what he really said so it must have been juicy.

5. June requests a picture of her acting like a horse every single week.

There are also lots of requests for me to take pictures of the girls as they shake their booty. I have not included those because I'm a classy gal, no matter what Dan said during his talk today.

The End.